Interesting Small Knotted Horsehair Brush old wooden box The back sides

The back sides

super thin walled raku vase

" date just little later I believe

which seems to have no impact

There are bent corners and a few lost corners

Interesting Small Knotted Horsehair Brush old wooden box The back sidesI think it is possible that this is a fly whisk or a horsetail whisk brush, which from what I understand are common to Asia, both as tokens of Taoism (shooing away evils) and with the practical function of brushing away the flies, mosquitoes. etc. But I am not certain! What made me fall in love with it is the construction, with each small bunch of horsehair carefully knotted onto what appears to be thread, which wraps around what appears to be a thin